Dr Yuliya Yurchenko 🇺🇦
@YPYurchenko
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(re)searching agency & dialectic forms. Ukraine, post-Sov, Europe, state/society/capital complex, human-nature dialectic. Political Economist @GPERC_UOG @CPERN
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In this lecture & at
@FESonline
event ahead of
#URC2024
I raised vital issues: UA needs a new social contract, human & nature centered recovery, exercise of Constitutional rights & guarantees inc ownership of land & natural resources by the UA people, not foreigner entities.
Building on historicized political economy of wartime Ukraine since 2014,
@YPYurchenko
's lecture illustrated that the state as an institution must be redefined.
Watch one of this week's most popular IWM YouTube videos here:
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@kmunroutrgv
Awesome! My fave to date still is though the one about an African aeronaut stuck in space as his country discontinued the space programme for lack of cash but he had some on earth to give you as a rich man should you pay to bring him to earth 🤣🤣🤣
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@briebriejoy
Unspeakable moral bankruptcy. Shame on you. Being a genocide denier, denying support to the victim of invasion with a straight face is something beyond my comprehension. Stopping genocide is not good enough a reason, or helping fix global food supplies ? Shocking callousness.
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Kyiv under siege. A baby girl is born in a Kyiv metro staton/shelter. Out of the horror & pain of Putin's crimes, a new generation is being forged. The one who won't now talk to its imperialistic "brother" politely, who will rebuild Ukraine on its own terms & I can't wait! 1/2
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"this is just putin's war, ordinary ruzzians didn't support it" - go scream this bs in that wing of Vinnytsia military hospital where castrated males are kept. Yes I hate everything ruzzian now. If you still don't, I'm not sure what you've been reading for the last 9.5 years
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So yet again at high level meetings I was asked about what Ukrainians are going to do about Russian speakers/ethnics. This victimblaming must stop. Go ask Russians what they are doing to alleviate their debt in genocide or how their Ukrainian language lessons are progressing.
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What the many demanding a peace movement in the UK & USA forget (making comparisons with Iraq e.g.) is that those movements/demos were appealing to the invaders to stop, not to victims of aggression to make concessions. Thus: peace movement(s) already exist - they're pro UA.. 1/2
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@Andreas_Bieler
@Bekhta_n
I'm sorry, is this an attempt at a joke? You seriously suggesting ceding territory/people to a neocolonial fascist state that perpetrated a genocide, legitimizing, and strengthening that state/regime, paving way to int fascist contest? I thought you were on the left. I was wrong.
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I'm speechless. And I'm out of this exchange.
@YPYurchenko
@Bekhta_n
I - Potential steps towards peace? 1) agree on ceasefire to open space for negotiations; 2) Ukraine cedes Eastern territory currently occupied by Russia; 3) Ukraine agrees on neutrality - no EU and NATO membership; 4) Russia fully accepts Ukrainian sovereignty but in new borders;
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@AdamDavidMorton
@Andreas_Bieler
@alex_callinicos
@tengely_evans
@jchoonara
@yanisvaroufakis
You totally misrepresent my viewpoint and misspelled my name. Thanks.
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@Andreas_Bieler
Have you considered what Russian occupation and victory mean for those men? Torture, castration, murder, theft of their children. They beg for weapons you deny. Do their pleas matter? Or pleas of UA trade unions/worker associations? They hate war more than you, believe me, them.
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@GaloAndStuff
I am also EXTREMELY opposed to them downloading journal articles via sci-hub (dot) se. Outraged by it.
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All is fucked. I'm in a car with my friend and her kids in traffic jam trying to leave Kyiv. Batteries run low
Will keep you posted.
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@briebriejoy
You clearly know nothing of the ethic dimension of this war. That's on top of not caring for genocide of Ukrainians and UA children orphaned and/or stolen from their parents. Didn't realize care for genocide victims is conditional. Charmer you are.
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The Russians who condemn the Putin's war must rise against him, rid of his crony rot in their country & build a different Russia. The one able to treat it's neighbours as equals & value human life, work of its labour. To those our hearts will always be open.
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Ukrainians will win. It's out of question. The question is this: who will remain on the wrong side of history justifying the genocide of Ukrainians? The world is watching and history, nor workers of the world will be kind to you.
Just as we couldn't believe in Ukrainian resistance in February, now we can't believe in Ukrainian victory. But they did resist, and they can win.
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@Andreas_Bieler
So are Russian. That's the nature of war. Every war. And also: that's not an argument against anything I said
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In Kyiv. Not leaving. Today mainly crying so more work can happen tomorrow. The world: you really fucked this one up. Yet again the "international community" shows itself being an Instagrammer of geopolitics.
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@Andreas_Bieler
Without what can be understood as a form of ru defeat there can be no peace nor negotiating. Occupation is not peace.
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View from my friend's window - watching this together as her 1 year old son is playing with his toys on the floor. Gavryshivka airport outside Vinnytsia. Off to my mom's to decide what to do. Speechless. It's most surreal.
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@Mariana_Betsa
I also see a different story: pensioners pushed into extreme poverty and digitisation reform drive while having to rely on charity to be part of the "brave new world". No old person should be in such dire situation. State provision failure to fix in UA recovery if designed well.
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Thank you
@SimonPirani1
! From Ukraine to Palestine - ccupation is a crime! Solidarity from Vienna.
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@AdamDavidMorton
@Andreas_Bieler
@alex_callinicos
@tengely_evans
@jchoonara
I appreciate your appreciation of my book, the issue I take is with my position on the current war being misrepresented: 1. Where and when have I called for militarism or militarisation esp internationally? 2. Please define a war of self-determination if this isn't one. 1/2
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They are pro helping UA in every possible way inc weapon supplies. And if you are not part of those, you don't support them - then you are pro war, pro neocolonialism, pro neoimperialism. If you can't see it, put down the mic. Politely please.
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Gloves off: Volodymyr Ishchenko is a charlatan & a fraud who pretends to be the only leftist in the village, never cites UA leftists who were his colleagues till yesterday & rips ideas off others. Parades as a Grasmci & class scholar (hmm, thought that's me)... my brain bleeds.
Zen is... When your once politically (deliberately) accidental coauthor writes academic fanfiction off of your (+others) work and also gets it published without any references to you. The hilarity of it & the reaction of the leftists w/o material or history is sickening frankly.
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I'm sick of having to apologize for Ukranians asserting their existence in own land or enforcing laws that are some 30y old. Instead ask Russians why they can learn German, English but not Ukrainian? Why they expect Ukrainian speakers to adjust to their impudence and entitlement.
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Ukraine’s state cannot afford its debt repayments any longer as Ukraine’s economy is destabilised as a result of the military campaign, increased spending on the military and having to deal with the consequences of war.
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Tell me more about how Ukraine is starving the world with this war or the west does with its sanctions.
According to Ihor Lutsenko, the Russians are burning Ukraine's wheat crop on purpose. Since the stalks are now dry, the whole field is on fire in a matter of minutes.
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What do you call it when a neo-imperial invasion with genocidal pretext and banned weapons use gets referred to as "local and ambiguous conflict"? Failure of editorial standards process
@nytimes
“The United States has helped turn this tragic, local and ambiguous conflict” — the war in Ukraine — “into a potential world conflagration,” writes the journalist Christopher Caldwell.
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A criminal push against labour rights in Ukraine. This must be revoked. Unforgivable esp at the time of war.
More news on labour liberalisation in Ukraine.
1) Parliament has passed the most radical version of its draft labour deregulation laws, one that has been roundly criticised by the ILO. It will remove 70% of Ukraine's workforce from national labour law.
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@AgnesCallamard
I don't know what your writers team are smoking but it sure smells like victim-blaming and genocidal war apoligism. Way to permanently ruin
@amnesty
reputation. Shame on you. Bourgeois luxury pacifism is, as such does.
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@BBCWorld
It should read: 80 years on, German tanks in Ukraine are not there to enslave but to help free Ukrainians.
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Our book is out and available for sale at a reasonable price. Do buy for yourself or those you know are interested to hear resistance voices.
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My broken heart, my beautiful people... My best uni friend, her daughter, mother and a dog are spending a night in a bomb shelter too. Russia is anticipated to have major cities attacked at 4-5am. The sick terror of it.
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@Andreas_Bieler
What would the world look like if Germany wasn't defeated with weapons in the 1940s? What will it look like if RU wins? Will their people be freer, better off? You can't defeat fascists with peace banners. I told you all this in Naples.
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Massive crowds and great energy yesterday at the London
#FreePalestine
demo. Apartheid must end. War crimes are war crimes no matter who commits them. Culling civilians, children is a war crime. Cutting water & energy supply is too.
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Some at
@ucu
apparently believe that there's a border of US empire in Ukraine. And that bombing cities & sending air defense systems is equal and that UK has a local imperialism to fight. Or sth. It was too "league of gentlemen" for my brain to decipher the deets. Shameful.
As universities and libraries are bombed by the Russians in Ukraine and colleagues lose their lives and livelihoods,
@ucu
gives platform to those who want to abandon Ukraine in a genocidal war. Appalled as a Ukrainian and a scholar by this display of profound ignorance.
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Absolutely agree.
@ucu
@DrJoGrady
you gotta fix this. To colleagues compelled (like me) to just leave the union: let's stay and fight this. We can't grant red-brown tankies (or managers hoping to weaken the union) the satisfaction nor the upper hand. They won't defeat us.
Disappointed by
@ucu
passing StopTheWar motion! It accepts 🇺🇦 subjugation to 🇷🇺 imperialism & war crimes. It is shocking 4 an academic union to not understand this & it is highly anti-intellectual.
@DrJoGrady
how can UCU say it defends rights when it sanctions this?!
@ellieknott
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This is what RU occupation means. Those advocating effective partition also accepts this to continue. Think of consequences before pushing for a "solution".
Since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, those living under Russian occupation have risked brutal reprisals for seeking to continue Ukrainian education, with some parents choosing to hide their children to avoid them being taken to ‘re-education’ institutions, for
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It's usually the unwillingness to listen/support that hurts most amidst the bloody dust of wartorn life. The betrayal is the heaviest. I have done enough tankie-tainted talks this year which are awfully hard; still: fighting own
@ucu
on top of that & the invasion is sth else
Support every word in the letter. I am among those who through "gritted teeth" (for now) remain to fight this. I don't know how long I'll last. 4 years as Health&Safety
@UCU
rep
@ucugreenwich
, 2 of which pandemic, wore me; the war wore me. As UA expert & activist I am disgusted
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Finally made it to a small town along mo6 to my friend's dacha. It took us since 6.33am to get here - mad traffic. Tanks, military equipment and personnel are pulled into Kyiv,moving against unshifting traffic. Kyiv is advised to evacuate as air attack is imminent. 1.
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@habibi_uk
"we must deal with our own imperialism! It's a local imperialism for local people" strong local shop (not fascist at all) vibes. I thought class struggle was international as was imperialism but hey, the comrade with glorious hair knows best.
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Ukrainians! How the hell are you coping?! I'm going from one break down to the next, hectic activity to paralysing apathy. Must see and smell my land. Daily. so lost... so much pain... Hugs to all
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As I watch them sun enter my mom's garden, I weep. It's black soil of it that fed infinite generations of our family, which we worked and which saved us in the economic hardship of the 1990s like so many others. Chornozem is still covered in frost but its life giving force... (1)
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@BritishAcademy_
Looks like the British Academy still don't think that Ukrainian academics have much to contribute. And interesting how the invited to it didn't think to suggest UA academics be added either. Am I mistaken? (excuse me if so) What happened here?!
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@STWuk
@UkraineSol
And this is the view from where we stood. You packed no Trafalgar square.
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Support every word in the letter. I am among those who through "gritted teeth" (for now) remain to fight this. I don't know how long I'll last. 4 years as Health&Safety
@UCU
rep
@ucugreenwich
, 2 of which pandemic, wore me; the war wore me. As UA expert & activist I am disgusted
As
@UCU
members & ex-members from
@UCLSSEES
, the UK’s largest centre for the study of Ukraine, Eastern Europe & Russia, we condemn Congress Motion 5’s misrepresentation of the war & UCU’s reluctance to support Ukraine. Please read & share our open letter
@DrJoGrady
@UCL_UCU
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This 🔽 Why listen to Ukrainians?! A comrade this morning tried to give me an explanation about class politics of this war. That's right. What do I know?! Just was in UA talking to activists and trade unions 2 weeks ago and spend 18 years writing about class&imperialism in UA.
If only the union had decided to consult its members who actually know about Ukraine, instead of numpties inspired by ex Chavez adviser Alan Woods, letters like this would not be needed 👇🏽
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If ruzzia wasn't appeased for decades, yes, decades, this wouldn't be reality. UA gave up WMD/nukes in exchange for guarantees that meant nothing. Then we get lectured about how weapons only bread war/death - no shit. Weapons of ruzzia that is. No tears left. Rage and fury.
In the haunting shadows of what once was Andriivka, the 3rd separate assault brigade stood resolute, facing more than just the onslaught of enemy mortar fire.
This isn't a scene from a movie or a round of Call of Duty; this is raw, unfiltered reality. The town lies in ruins, its
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@AdamDavidMorton
@Andreas_Bieler
@alex_callinicos
@tengely_evans
@jchoonara
Fundamentally you say that Ukranians will to not die or be tortured, raped, castrated is irrelevant because some capitalists may benefit from this war. Or Russia may weaken? (The least of my concerns as it's an overtly fascist empire that must fall).
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To all partition advocates: this is what your idea of peace looks like. Go to hell together with the Russian army. I have no time for blind(ed) apologists of neonazi colonial states and their land grabs.
On May 18, the heading “Denazification” appeared on the Telegram channel of one of the pro-Russian bloggers. He uploads videos every day, in which frightened and exhausted residents of the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions repent of disloyalty to the Russians. /1
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You "packed" all cobwebs you haven't cleared for decades in 1 rally w/o any reps from UA - criminal faux pacifism
@STWuk
.
@UkraineSol
campaign & Iranian demo stood across the square calling it as it is:
#RussiaIsATerroristState
& Iran a dictatorship + 🇷🇺 must be stopped by arms.
Thousands packed into Trafalgar Square, London with
@STWuk
&
@CNDuk
to 📢 demand
#PeaceNow
to
#StopTheWar
on the one year anniversary of war in Ukraine
#EuropeforPeace
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It's true apparently that you really know the deep meaning and place of someone in your life when they are terminally gone. The one person I thought we'd have the last drink on the eve of apocalypse together as he's invincible is gone. My dark side ticket to me, my Alex. Fuck war
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Dear president
@ZelenskyyUa
- there must be a push back on this. Ukrainian people deserve better! Have they not suffered enough? Do we want modern day slavery equivalence? Respectfully, Dr
@YPYurchenko
. Happy to advise on postwar/wartime economy & labour regulation.
A criminal push against labour rights in Ukraine. This must be revoked. Unforgivable esp at the time of war.
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It is hilarious. Do western talkies, putin appeasers, NATO blamers, and arms to UA deniers realize that that's exactly how they sound? Because the essence of all of those positions is as lucid as lavrov.
#RussiaisATerroistState
#ArmUkraineNow
This is hilarious. And embarrassing. Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Lavrov says "the war we are trying to stop was launched against us" and the Indian audience - supposedly sympathetic - audibly laughs. Russian "diplomats" think that the lies they use to feed Putin's fantasies
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The whole world watched Russia because a fascist neocolonial state. Watched and did nothing. Moreover, enabled it. I'm glad my grandparents aren't alive to see their families' sacrifices of the 1940s annulled. Our generation must do better. For indeed, lest we forget (forgot?).
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There's left, there's right. And there's genocide apologism/perpetuation narrative. For shame
Jurgen Habermas, Germany’s most famous living social theorist and philosopher, has written an article in which he argues that Scholz is right on Ukraine, that it’s a problem that Western military aid is becoming increasingly “offensive” and that peace negotiations must start now
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Just one request from the well meaning commentators and academics: if you didn't know Ukraine maps shape or location yesterday, let alone in 2014, write nothing. For the love of god I don't believe in - take up a toilet journal habit. Get off Twitter.
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Settler colonialism continues
Russian occupation authorities of Crimea settle Russian soldiers with civilians.
Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people reports that 600 soldiers have been settled in Sovetskoye village, most of them are natives of Yakutia.
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May all the luck in the world be with UA defenders. The skill and the zeal and the local support they got coveted. Glory to them.
#SlavaUkrainii
Lightning Ukraine offensive pushes Russia back 70km in a week
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@yuliyakischuk
A friend said a great thing yesterday: you can be a pacifist or antifa/anti-imperialist, but not both. Not all wars are the same and not all parties are equally guilty.
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I can think of sth else irreconcilable with feminist movement: denying victims of aggression means of defense. Disappointed to see many women I admire among signatories. Immoral. Shameful. Russian feminists r mentioned there mistakenly. No UA/RU names, wow
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@Gregor_Schwartz
@ChrisDYork
With an interviewer like that, who himself found Ukraine on a map this winter, such "enlightened" material is only bound to keep reproducing I'm afraid. Indeed, why talk to people who know what's up? It's Stop the War coalition all over again
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Just a regular night in Kyiv: air raid alert, loud - very loud - explosions heard downtown (I'm staying very central) outside my window earlier; now sheltering awake & unnerved not knowing when more blasts or sleep are coming - UA lives with this daily. Could or should anyone?
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Every time UA is promised support from partners, RU punishes it w mass air attacks. Horrific night in UA. Still waiting to hear if all friends are safe. Negotiate you say?! UA isn't even "allowed" to attack RU, just to hit troops on UA territory. Colonial enabling 9y & counting.
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@GicAriana
Mortar fire was used. It's a mistranslation. Equally horrific. Yet important detail
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They should invite Ovsyannikova too to teach dissent. Throw in Chomsky.
It's one thing being critical of the "west" and it's quite another seeing the world as a pile of states shaped as metal cubes with a pair of magnets dragging them towards. It's just really bad scholarship.
Tarik Cyril Amar (
@TarikCyrilAmar
) of
@kocuniversity
was a prolific contributor to Russian state media before 2022.
Now he is slated to teach at the “Ukrainicum” summer school at
@wiko_greifswald
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@AdamDavidMorton
@Andreas_Bieler
@alex_callinicos
@tengely_evans
@jchoonara
"The war in Ukraine may well be regarded as a war of independence but it is nested within wider inter-imperialist rivalries as well as the deep crisis in global capitalism." B&M 2024 (blog), you say it in the article too. So is it a war of independence or not? You say no now? 2/2
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@AdamDavidMorton
@Andreas_Bieler
@alex_callinicos
@tengely_evans
@jchoonara
I am also curious to hear your position on Russian militarism.
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So the EUCommision just removed my tweet asking them to allow transfer of oligarchic buss into management and collective ownership of workers if they are serious about de-oligarchisation. Also rid of privatisation & marketisation insistence from DCFTA. I'll write 2 papers hons 😘
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The "peace" demanded of UA is violence. Add the mind-blowing effect of genocidal invaders to be rewarded with people to torture & with territory and sea routes. Tolerating literal colonisation in 21st c?! UA sovereignty is second rate it seems - a big blow to UN system viability
I am appalled by the cynicism of the advocates for peace in exchange for territory for Ukraine.
These people always talk about giving annexed territories and never about giving up on people imprisoned and tortured in these territories.
They are in denial. 1/
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Victim blaming supreme. I knew all that reading about narcissistic abuse and trauma dynamics for some years now was not time wasted but didn't quite expect it become so useful in understanding Kremlin's "foreign policy" or politics.
It's surreal that Ukraine, the country that has been suffering from Russian bombing, murders, rapes, gets blamed by some for a possible global food crisis because 'it refuses to cede territory to Russia'. How about blaming Russia for starting the war and blocking Ukrainian ports?
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Ukraine needs cancellation of its depts, financial and military aid. Not loans for arms - profiteering of Ukraine today is callous beyond imagination.
We asked
@YPYurchenko
what Ukrainians need from international civil society and the left? She says sanctions, share the story that Ukraine is not a fascist state - that is no justification for Putin’s invasion.
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I'm one of that 78%. Will never forgive nor forget, not deaths nor ecocide of my beautiful land.
78% of Ukrainians have relatives or friends who have died or been wounded in the war.
That’s 4 out of 5.
The Russian idea of brotherly nations is gone. By Russia’s doing.
The war has become personal for everyone in Ukraine. It is us vs them.
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@pslnational
Ukrainians have a right to demand peace. You have a right to help them win the war. Try it.
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Gotta love seeing academics who turned a blind eye to Russian imperialism for years & helped paint Ukraine a neofascist ghetto (yes, it assisted Putin's propaganda) now all of a sudden speaking at all sorts of imperialism related panels. Marvellous dissonance. Almost amusing.
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@ucu
It's really great way to induce stress in your members. Late night Fri announcement of plans for the next week going in the bin. Thanks! I love anxiety attacks while off sick with stress. That's not period of calm but erosion of results so far.
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@ucu
Why 5 Thursdays, 1 Fri, 2 Tues? My teaching day is Thur. It means my students lose half the term of teaching and people esp on hourly contracts get disproportionately affected. Change the dates if you want ppl to partake in full.
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On the way to work to lecture UG students while checking in with mother in Vinnytsia where 4 missiles have so far been shot down by air defense. It's also my husband's birthday. Mood... well, shit. This is what Ukrainians live each day. Fuck this war, fuck putin.
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@IlvesToomas
@PaulNiland
D. It is up to Russians - after and alongside apologising - to make things better by paying to rebuild Ukraine,by teaching their new generation of what RU did & to never repeat it, by decolonizing RF, by curing their superioty complex - that'd be a start.
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Imagine being a journalist, denying crimes you didn't bother follow, or not knowing (if we are to be generous) the difference between "if" and "when". Did you have to so callously instrumentalise ongoing suffering & add to the trope of "privileged" Ukrainians
@OwenJones84
We all know that if Russian forces had burned alive dozens of refugees, including little kids, there would be justified screams of outrage and disgust from Western leaders and media outlets.
It would be used as key evidence that Putin is one of the great monsters of our age.
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@thephilippics
@NewStatesman
There's something that's remote from the frontline or reality here - It's your head and that gap where heart is supposed to sit. Tomorrow, as my friend is buried who died on the frontline, I'll just tell myself it's all a simulation and that'll undead him I'm sure.
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@sasha_weirdsley
@ucu
Honestly, it is beyond descriptions. And these people will then come asking why there is no strong left in UA - because of this sort of "left solidarity", a cherry on Putin's cake of "Stalin was a hero, UA don't exist, all nazis". When will this surrealist nightmare end?!
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There's left, right, there's red-brown - all sorts in politics. And there's Ishchenko who spends his days in Germany destroying what the left in UA together with grassroots+trade unions are building inc international solidarity networks, fundraising, taking up arms. Shameful.
To push its agenda, Ishchenko decided to literally ally with people, who openly endorse Stalin and deny Holodomor… and deliberately doesnt say that their audience is mostly Russian and that they never seen outside internet… Every manipulation from the book to push his agenda.
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An interview with yours truly for the
@jacobin
- on debt and other issues.
Even before Russia rained terror on its cities, Ukraine was a poor country with limited economic sovereignty. Today, Ukraine’s creditors should free it of its debts, allowing it to rebuild on the basis of self-sufficiency and democratic choice.
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I see you & I raise you: Exchange re a draft cfp for a conference: when adding an edit to refer to a neocolonial genocidal invasion of UA by RU & then querying why it was removed,told that all imperialism is genocidal & what about other genocides? Don't feel special, UA, right?
I was at a discussion recently that touched on, among other things, mass sexual violence committed by the Russian army and the mass kidnap of children; one of the first questions from a man in the audience was 'what about western russophobia and western imperialism?'.
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@PpeterPeter
I cannot believe some ppl on this thread. The one guy who actually lives in one of those - loves it. The rest have to lay into what's clearly a positive thing. What's wrong w you ppl?! Peter: these are beautiful! May there be more if these. Great job!
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The sooner UA gets all the weapons it needs, the sooner the war is over: "Western forecasts that the war is entering a period of “stalemate” ignore the fact that the West’s piecemeal support for Ukraine is a key factor in delaying Ukrainian counteroffensives."
Thread pulling out some especially salient bits of
@Mason_R_Clark
's fine argument for how to bring the Russo-Ukrainian war to an end. 0/9
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@sianushka
Simple: they don't care. And they can't see Russia for what it is/was/became. And the internalized colonial vision of the world - the hall of mirrors of those studying colonies of all but RU + USSR fetishism+anti Americanism + absence of shelling where they are. Many reasons...
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@holodmedia_en
Why are you called Hunger and do you know how insensitive (to put it mildly) it is while the war is raging esp with the historical context of Holodomor? P.s. if you're going w "cold' please change it to "kholod" as the correct form of transliteration.
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Immensely happy and proud that this is finally done. My comrades at
@UkraineSol
& UCU for Ukraine group- what a win! Solidarity forever! Separate thanks to
@ucugreenwich
branch for passing the motion ahead of the
#ucu2024
Congress and for our delegate support!
News from UCU Congress
#UCU2024
: the Congress voted to affiliate to Ukraine Solidarity Campaign; and to back Ukraine's "right... to self-determination and self-defence" and "salute the continuing resistance of the Ukrainian people to Russian imperialist invasion and occupation"🧵
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Without ruzzia losing, there's no security in the region. Make no mistake.
Minsk 3 is a dangerous delusion.
Berlin (& Washington) need to comprehensively dispel any notion they are working towards this.
If they don’t we need our people and our allies to show that we won’t accept such a reckless gamble with our security.
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Why does an aggressor have a right to vote?!
The UN Security Council voted on a draft resolution that condemned the Russian annexation of four occupied regions in
#Ukraine
In favour: 10
Abstentions: 4 (China, Brazil, India, Gabon)
Against: Russia (Veto)
The resolution was not adopted.
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Horrifying. Sadly too familiar. The emotional toll of being a Ukrainian abroad is enormous, of the indifference and insensitivity alone. Add to that what's documented below and you'll get why people go back to air raid sirens and threat of death.
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Now that's the kind of solidarity we need more of. Excellent.
⚡️ Bloomberg: Dutch port refuses to unload tanker with Russian fuel.
Employees of a Dutch dock refused to unload a tanker Sunny Liger carrying about 60,000 tons of diesel from Russia’s Primorsk port, Bloomberg reported.
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@yanisvaroufakis
It's not your place to decide Ukraine's borders
@yanisvaroufakis
. They are already internationally recognized and constitutionally legitimate. Take your fascist neocolonialism apologism wherever that is it came from. αντιο σας
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